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In May, The Indian Express had reported that former judge Jyotsna Yagnik had received 22 threat letters and had been getting blank calls at her residence after she pronounced the landmark judgment in the Naroda Patiya riots case. The Gujarat ...Indian Express, 1 week ago

AHMEDABAD: Retired judge Jyotsna Yagnik said on Wednesday that her request to the state government for increasing her security cover, following threats to her life, seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Yagnik had sentenced to life imprisonment 32 ...

judge Jyotsna Yagnik, who convicted ex-Gujarat minister Mayaben Kodnani and former VHP leader Babu Bajrangi in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case, has recently complained of receiving threatening calls and letters, the government said today. "The issue will be ...

A life term for Kodnani and the hangman's noose for Kasab show the arbitrariness in the judicial administration of capital punishment Judge Jyotsna Yagnik's invocation of human dignity while not awarding the death penalty in the Naroda-Patiya ...

New Delhi, July 30: Civil society activists have slammed what they described as the "hounding" of Teesta Setalvad and husband Javed Anand, fearing the couple "could be eliminated" by a "dispensation that can go to any extent to silence her". ...

'My confidence in the Indian judiciary is absolute after I saw justice being delivered in Gujarat even when a BJP government was ruling the state. The Muslims of Gujarat believed that they will never get justice in a BJP-ruled state, but the facts are before all of us to make a judgment.' Zafar Sareshwala, below, left, who is considered by many as someone close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, spoke to Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com after the Supreme Court verdict in the Yakub Memon case. Your ...

Ahmedabad: A two-judge bench has recused itself from hearing a case related to one of worst episodes of the 2002 Gujarat riots - involving the massacre of over 100 people in Naroda Patiya. The judges have said they have been contacted by some of the ...

National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) is outraged at the repeated persecution of peace activists Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand by the Government of India and Govt. of Gujarat, who, for more than two decades have been challenging the ...

Countercurrents.org PADS strongly condemns the CBI raids of 14 July 2015 at the premises of social activist Teesta Setalvad, her husband Javed Anand, Gulam Mohammed Peshimam and office of Sabrang Communications and Publishing in Mumbai. These raids ...

AHMEDABAD: The appeals in the 2002 Naroda Patia massacre case will be heard from Wednesday by the bench of Justice K S Jhaveri and Justice G B Shah. The appeals have been listed for hearing for the first time since the Supreme Court stayed the ...